题目内容

阅读理解。

     I made a pledge (发誓) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would
try to be a loving husband and father. Totally loving. No ifs, ands or buts.
     The idea had come to me as I listened to a talk on my car radio. The speaker was quoting a Biblical (圣经
的) passage about husbands being thoughtful of their wives. Then he went on to say, "Love is an act of will.
A person can choose to love." To myself, I had to admit that I had been a selfish husband. Well, for two weeks
that would change.
     And it did. Right from the moment I kissed Evelyn at the door and said, "That new yellow sweater looks
great on you.
     "Oh, Tom, you noticed," she said, surprised and pleased, maybe a little puzzled.
     After the long drive, I wanted to sit and read. Evelyn suggested a walk on the beach. I started to refuse, but
then I thought, "Evelyn's been alone here with the kids all the week and now she wants to stay with me." We
walked on the beach while the children flew their kites.
     So it went. Two weeks of not calling the Wall Street firm where I am a director; a visit to the shell museum
though I usually hate museums. Relaxed and happy, that's how the whole vacation passed. I made a new pledge to keep on remembering to choose love.
     There was one thing that went wrong with my experiment, however. Evelyn and I still laugh about it today.
Last night at our cottage,p reparing for bed, Evelyn stared at me with the saddest expression.
     " What's the matter?" I asked her.
     "Tom," she said in a voice filled with distress, "do you know something I don't?"
     "What do you mean?"
     " Well...that checkup (体检) I had several weeks ago...our doctor...did he tell you something about me?
Tom, you've been so good to me...am I dying?"
     It took a moment for it all to sink in. Then I burst out laughing.
     "No, honey," I said, wrapping her in my arms. "You're not dying; I'm just starting to live."

1. In the first paragraph, "No ifs, ands or buts" probably means ____.
[     ]
A. unnecessarily
B. unexpectedly
C. impossibly
D. unconditionally
2. From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage _____.
[     ]
A. with his family
B. with Evelyn
C. alone
D. with his children
3. During the two weeks on the beach, Tom showed more love to his wife because _____.
[     ]
A. she looked lovely in her new clothes
B. he had made a lot of money in Wall Street
C. he was determined to be a good husband
D. she was seriously ill
4. The underlined words "one thing" in the text refer to the fact that _____.
[     ]
A. he praised her sweater, which puzzled her
B. she insisted on visiting a museum, which he hated
C. he knew something about her illness but didn't tell her
D. he was so good to her that she thought she must be dying
5. By saying "I'm just starting to live", Tom means that _____.
[     ]
A. he is just beginning to understand the real meaning of life
B. he is just beginning to enjoy his life as a loving husband
C. he lived an unhappy life before and is now starting to change
D. he is beginning to feel regretful for what he did to his wife
1-5: DACDB
练习册系列答案
相关题目
阅读理解
     [1] I was walking in the park with a friend recently,and his cell phone rang,interrupting our
conversation.There we were,walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day.But I became invisible,absent
from the conversation.
     [2] The telephone used to connect you to the absent.Now it makes people sitting next to you  feel
absent.Recently I was in a car with three friends.The driver told us to be quiet because he could not hear
the person on the other end of his cell phone.There we were,four friends going down the highway,unable
to talk to one another because of a tool designed to make  communication easier.
     [3] Why is it that the more connected we get,____________?Every advance in  communications
technology is a hurt to the closeness of human interaction (互动). With email and instant messaging over
the Internet,we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.With voice mail,you can
conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.
     [4] More_and_more,I_find_myself hiding_behind_email to_do_a_job_ meant_for conversation.Or
being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk.The industry devoted to
helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
     [5] So I've put myself on technology restriction:no instant messaging with people who live near me,no
cellphoning in the presence of friends,no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm home.
1. What does the author say about communications technology according to the first two paragraphs?
(within 15 words)
________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
However,I felt left out as if we were not conducting the conversation.
________________________________________________________________________
3. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words.(within 10 words)
________________________________________________________________________
4. Does the author restrict his own activity to improve the situation?Give an example.(within 15 words)
________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.
________________________________________________________________________
阅读理解。
     I was walking along the deserted main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking
somewhere to make a phone call. My car had broken down outside the town and I wanted to get in
touch with the Automobile Association .Low gray clouds were drifting across the sky and there was
a cold damp wind blowing off the sea. It had rained in the night and water was dripping from the bare
trees that lined the street. I was glad that I was wearing a thick coat.
     I could see no call box, nor was there anyone at that early hour I could ask. I had thought I might
find a shop selling the Sunday papers or a milkman doing his job, but the town was completely dead.
     Then suddenly I found what I was looking for. There was a small post office, and almost hidden
from sight in a dark narrow street next to it was the town's only public call box, which badly needed
a coat of paint, I hurried forward but stopped in astonishment when I saw through the dirty glass that
there was a man inside. He was very fat, and was wearing a cheap blue plastic raincoat and rubber
boots. I could not see his face - he was bending forward over the phone with his back pressed against
the glass and didn't even raise his head at the sound of my coming nearer and nearer. Carefully and
surprisedly, I remained standing a few feet away and lit a cigarette to wait my turn. It was when I threw
the dead match on the ground that I noticed something bright red trickling from under the call box door.
1. The author was walking through the small seaside town__________.
A. late morning      
B. before midnight    
C. early morning    
D. late evening
2. The weather of the day was ____, when the story happened.
A. stormy, damp and clear        
B. windy, cold and cloudy
C. rainy, cold and clear              
D. rainy, windy and cold
3. Why was the author astonished when he saw that there was a man in the call box? Because___
A. the man inside was still wearing a raincoat
B. he didn't expect it to be taken up
C. the man had his back with him
D. the man did not seem to be moving
4. The author waited, standing a few feet away from the box because____.
A. it was bad manners to overhear other's phone calls
B. the man didn't notice his coming
C. he wanted to have a cigarette to calm himself down
D. it was not safe to be close to the box
5. What do you suppose happened to the man in the call box?
A. He slept.                              
B. He was too fat to move around.
C. He was lost in his important phone call.    
D. He had most probably been killed.
阅读理解。
     I asked Jackie a lot of questions. I asked if she became close to her patients. She said, "Some I do,
especially if I have become their close friends and they tell me things they wouldn't tell anyone else. I've
found it harder for the patient's family to accept what's happening. In most cases, the dying person has
accepted the truth."
     I asked her how she could do this work for so long. She said,"I have taken care of 3,000people over
37years. I consider dying to be a very important part of life. I feel good because I can make these people's
journey easier."
      Jackie was the mother I have never had. My own mother, Helen, was taken away from me right after
I was born. I never knew her. And I had a strange relationship with my father. He was a Sunday father.
Since my sister and I lived in foster homes, he came to visit only on Sundays.
     But at the hospice (临终安养院), nurse Jackie gave me hope, love and encouragement. She listened to
all my stories, and I listened to hers. It was a comfort. The nurses had told my family that death was
coming near. As time went on, I became the star patient at the hospice, because I didn't go according to
plans. My kidneys started working again and could function without dialysis (透析). It was a mystery to
my doctors. My friends said It was a miracle. But I knew what actually cured me.
     The employees showed me off to other patients and being the ham I was, I enjoyed.
1. According to the second paragraph, the reason why Jackie feels happy is that _____.
A. she can have a trip with the patient
B. She knows dying is very important
C. She can reduce patients' pain during their last days
D. she can arrange a journey for the patients before they die
2. They author mentioned his parents in the third paragraph in order to tell us _____.
A. he wants parents to love their own children
B. Jackie cares for him more than his parents do
C. he loves Jackie more than he loves his patients
D. he had a very unhappy childhood 
3. The underlined word "miracle" in the fourth paragraph means something that is _____.
A. very exciting
B. hard to believe
C. very risky
D. very important
4. we can learn from the passage that _____.
A. Jackie worked in the hospice as a volunteer.
B. the author's mother left him when he was two
C. the author was the youngest child in his family
D. the author didn't like being the hospice poster boy
5. According to the author, _____ actually cured him.
A. Jackie's love and encouragement
B. other patients' moving stories
C. the help of a well-known doctor
D. his strong desire to live
阅读理解。
     I needed to get some money so, after Christmas, I took a job in the clothes department at Graham's
for the first fortnight of the January sale. I can't say that I enjoyed it, but it was an experience I'll never
forget.
     I could never understand why there were so many things in the sales; where did they all come from?
Now I know the secret! Firstly, there is the special winter stock (货物) and the stock that people buy all
the year round; some of these things are slightly reduced. Secondly, there are the summer clothes they
couldn't sell last year; these are heavily reduced to clear them. Thirdly, there are cheap clothes bought in
specially for the sales; these are put out at high prices ten days before the sale begins and then are reduced
by 60% in the sale. Clever! Lastly, they buy in"seconds? (clothes not in perfect condition) for the sale and
they are sold very cheaply.
     When I arrived half an hour before opening on the first day of the sale, there was already a queue around
three sides of the building. This made me very nervous.
      When the big moment arrived to open the doors, the security guards, looking less confident than usual,
came up to them, keys in hand. The moment they had unlocked the doors, they hid behind the doors for
protection as the noisy crowd charged in. I couldn't believe my eyes; this wasn't shopping, it was a
battlefield! One poor lady couldn't keep her feet and was knocked over by people pushing from behind.
     Clothes were flying in all directions as people searched for the sizes, colors and styles they wanted.
Quarrels broke out. Mothers were using their small children to crawl (爬行) through people's legs and get
hold of things they couldn't get near themselves.
     Within minutes I had half a dozen people pushing clothes under my nose, each wanting to be the first
served. Where had the famous English Queue gone? The whole day continued like that, but I kept my
temper (脾气)! I was taking money hand over fist and began to realize why, twice a year, Graham's were
happy to turn their expensive store into a battlefield like this.
     In the sale fever, people were spending money like water without thinking whether they needed what
they were buying. As long as it was a bargain it was OK.
     You won't believe this but as soon as I got home I crashed out for four hours. Then I had dinner and
went back to bed, fearing the sound of the alarm which would tell me to get ready for the second day of
the sale.
1. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The customers gave up the queuing for which the English are famous.
B. The customers kept their temper while looking for clothes they wanted.
C. Small children enjoyed crawling through people's legs.
D. The security guards were fearless of the crowd.
2. In the author's opinion, why were Graham's happy to make their expensive store into"Battlefield?
A. There were too many clothes and they wanted to clear them in the sales.
B. They were eager to show that they were clever at doing business.
C. They could take the chance to raise the prices of all their clothes.
D. They wanted to make more money by having sales.
3. The expression "crashed out" means _______.
A. chatted with her friends
B. slept soundly
C. broke down
D. dined out
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Best Bargain.
B. Hunting for a job.
C. Sale Fever.
D. A Pleasant Fortnight.
阅读理解。
     "I swear, I didn't steal anything!" I shouted over the alarm. Obviously the security guard didn't believe me
because he seized the shopping bag right out of my hand.
     "Do you have a receipt for this?" he asked doubtfully, putting any new back-to-school outfit (全套设备)
onto the dusty floor near the mall entrance.
     "Of course I do," I replied, fishing my wallet out of my coat pocket. Elsie and Monica, my two best friends,
stood beside me. They were laughing their heads off!
     I almost tore my wallet apart for the receipt, but it had disappeared. "Let me look again," I said nervously.
Then I looked again, and again, and again! My face was getting butter by the minute, and my heart was beating
like a racehorse.
     Finally, I looked back at the guard and whispered, "It's not here." The guard picked up my clothes and said,
"You'll have to come with me, Miss."
     When he opened the office door, I saw a man sitting behind a big metal desk. It was the manager. Then I
had an idea.
     "May I say something?" I asked. "I can prove I didn't steal this thing." "Then I explained all about the
cashier (出纳员). She said that she had bought the exact same outfit as a birthday present for her little sister."
"We'll just see about that," the manager said and went off to find her. Ten minutes later, I was free!
     It was terrible to be unfairly accused of something! Then I remembered shouting at my sister that very
morning for taking my new hair clips.
     Had she really taken them? I made a promise that day never to accuse someone of something without
proof, and I haven't. At last something good came out of my terrible experience.
1. Why didn't the security guard believe the author?
[     ]
A. Because she looked nervous at that time.
B. Because she had no money in her wallet.
C. Because she didn't have a receipt for the outfit.
D. Because her face turned red after being caught.
2. That the author's two friends laughed their heads off showed _____.
[     ]
A. they didn't believe the author
B. they laughed at the author who stole things.
C. they expected the author to be caught.
D. they played a trick on the author.
3. We can infer the author was very _____ from the underlined part in Paragraph 4.
[     ]
A. careful
B. nervous
C. frightened
D. excited
4. Who proved that the author hadn't stolen anything?
[     ]
A. The manager.
B. The cashier.
C. The author's friends
D. The security guard.
5. From her experience, the author learned that _____.
[     ]
A. you should believe in yourself in face of difficulty
B. it is a terrible thing to be suspected by friends
C. you should ask for a receipt for whatever you buy
D. you should not doubt others if you can't prove it